An evaluation of non-relational database management systems as suitable storage for user generated text-based content in a distributed environment

Du Toit, Petrus

dc.contributor.advisor	Van Staden, Wynand
dc.contributor.author	Du Toit, Petrus
dc.date.accessioned	2016-10-07T09:38:47Z
dc.date.available	2016-10-07T09:38:47Z
dc.date.issued	2016-07-10
dc.date.submitted	2016-10-07
dc.identifier.citation	Du Toit, Petrus (2016) An evaluation of non-relational database management systems as suitable storage for user generated text-based content in a distributed environment, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21613>	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21613
dc.description.abstract	Non-relational database management systems address some of the limitations relational database management systems have when storing large volumes of unstructured, user generated text-based data in distributed environments. They follow different approaches through the data model they use, their ability to scale data storage over distributed servers and the programming interface they provide. An experimental approach was followed to measure the capabilities these alternative database management systems present in their approach to address the limitations of relational databases in terms of their capability to store unstructured text-based data, data warehousing capabilities, ability to scale data storage across distributed servers and the level of programming abstraction they provide. The results of the research highlighted the limitations of relational database management systems. The different database management systems do address certain limitations, but not all. Document-oriented databases provide the best results and successfully address the need to store large volumes of user generated text-based data in a distributed environment	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (x, 183 leaves) : illustrations	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Relational databases	en
dc.subject	Database performance measurement	en
dc.subject	Distributed databases	en
dc.subject	Column-oriented databases	en
dc.subject	Key/value databases	en
dc.subject	Database benchmarking	en
dc.subject	Database management systems	en
dc.subject	Horizontal scalability	en
dc.subject.ddc	005.756
dc.subject.lcsh	Non-relational databases	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Database management	en
dc.title	An evaluation of non-relational database management systems as suitable storage for user generated text-based content in a distributed environment	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
dc.description.department	School of Computing	en
dc.description.degree	M. Sc. (Computer Science)